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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2436 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for August 2, 2024

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I'm doing the exact opposite of something fun- last minute packing for my move to Scotland.

If anyone has any ideas for things I can/should pick up within about 36 hours, I'd love to hear them. Preferably options that don't take much too much volume, it turns out you need an awful lot of clothing when you're permanently shifting countries.

Any information about foods you really like that might be hard to find in your new home (a list of restaurants to try or recipes or grocery stores that can get the spices and ingredients needed) that's the thing I miss most after moving cross country where very different immigrants groups settled the food of one ethnicity is in both places but no one from the new place grew up eating it so it's very very different here.

If there's one thing the UK isn't short of, it's Indian food haha. There's a cheap and cheerful curry place right down the road from my rental.

My culinary talents are.. questionable, so the dishes I'll dearly miss like biryani are outside what my skill allows. The majority of the condiments and spices we take for granted are readily available at supermarkets, or can be tracked down at specialty stores, and from what I've seen, the breadth and quality of products puts what we have at home to shame.

As many small things that remind you of your old home, your family and your friends as possible. They are the only things you won't be able to buy.

That's good advice, but I struggle to think of anything that fits the bill :(

I'm not kidding, I've never been a sentimental person and my family not one for gift giving, so barring the pictures I have backed up, there's nothing I can take with me. Maybe a big award I'd won almost a decade back, but that's big enough to need it's own seat on a flight.

Print and frame the pictures when you get to Scotland, then. They will make your place look more lived-in and a picture is a good reminder to call your mom.

Hmm.. That's a great idea! I'll see if I have time to drop by a print shop and get some made quick. Thank you, it wouldn't have occurred to me.

Canvas frameless pictures are some of my favorite:

  1. The colors pop
  2. They are light and easy to hang
  3. They are relatively cheap

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